Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle.

• Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your source:

  In addition to consuming a lot of plant matter, gorillas occasionally consume insects. Gorillas are not considered carnivores in the wild, despite the fact that they may consume meat when it is served to them in zoos. Although officially omnivores, gorillas primarily consume plants, including leaves, stems, bark, flowers, and fruits. They occasionally consume tiny vertebrates and insects as well.

  If all of humanity started to “occasionally consume tiny vertebrates and insects” while “primarily consuming plants” by tomorrow we’d be way better off. Do you agree?

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, I’ve read my source. What it says is that Gorillas are NOT purley vegan (which was your statement) while not contradicting anything I said.

    Also a lot of grazing herbivours, cows and buffaloes will occational eat small vertabrets. So not being considered “carnivores in the wild” doesn’t realy mean anyhing. You don’t need to be carnivore (or even an omnivore) to not have a “purley vegan” diet.

    Which of course makes sense, because animals are opportunistic, not idealistic.

    If all of humanity started to “occasionally consume tiny vertebrates and insects” while “primarily consuming plants” by tomorrow, which we could, we’d be way better off. Do you agree?

    I certainly wouldn’t, but that wasn’t really the point.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really, the only “true vegan” animals are probably Pandas and Koalas which is kinda meaningless as well considering they don’t eat anything else other than bamboo and eucalyptus, respectively

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    • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Us humans are opportunistic animals as well, which has led to us destroying our global habitat. So we need to change or society will collapse in the not so distant future. There are a lot of things that need to change to survive the next century. The way we eat is one of them. And it’s the easiest, because you don’t have to get off your ass and protest, you just change a habit and stop buying the destructive food next time your shop at the supermarket. You choose the food that saves ⅔ land use, waterpollution and co2-emissions. That’s my point.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That makes sense.

        But my point was soley about Gorillas not having a purley vegan diet.

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